Atheism in Music

[Sho-NUFF!]

Sho-NUFF!

If youre looking for Atheist Rap, look up Greydon Square on Myspace...he has some really good music, you should check it out, even if you dont like Rap.

^^^Repost for those who missed it.  

[Dread Dionaea]

I love rap. I'll definitely check that out. Rap's a beautifully complex lyrical art and I'd love to see how that translates into atheistic principles. The first song, "Papa Noah," is by a Dancehall group that largely does trilingual rap. Too bad I only understand the English and very little of the German.  

[Dread Dionaea]

Theophrastus

Or for that matter, an openly homosexual gangsta rapper.

That'd just make my day.

It doesn't count, but a girl I knew in reform school's best friend gangsta rapped about being openly gay. He wasn't really a rapper in the famous record-making sense but damned if his songs weren't awesome. He had one called "Big Daddy" and--this was five years ago and I was fourteen so I don't remember the intricacies of the song--it went something like:

"You're a big fine man,
now back that a**.
Won't you call me big daddy
while you back that a**?"

I don't remember anything else about it, haha.  

[Arios V]

CleverScreenname

Bad Religion anyone?

Yes, Bad Religion is awesome.

However they're more political than religious  

[Meirelle]

Arios V

CleverScreenname

Bad Religion anyone?

Yes, Bad Religion is awesome.

However they're more political than religious

Agreed. But hey, religion, politics-- psh. What's the difference? twisted  

[Arios V]

Meirelle

Arios V

CleverScreenname

Bad Religion anyone?

Yes, Bad Religion is awesome.

However they're more political than religious

Agreed. But hey, religion, politics-- psh. What's the difference? twisted

Not a whole lot right now. Just wait a few years, then it will be just like it was back in the Middle Ages: Religion & Politics are one  

[cup_noodles]

Arios V

Meirelle

Arios V

CleverScreenname

Bad Religion anyone?

Yes, Bad Religion is awesome.

However they're more political than religious

Agreed. But hey, religion, politics-- psh. What's the difference? twisted

Not a whole lot right now. Just wait a few years, then it will be just like it was back in the Middle Ages: Religion & Politics are one

Can you say Catholic Church?
:O

 

[Meirelle]

cup_noodles

Arios V

Meirelle

Arios V

CleverScreenname

Bad Religion anyone?

Yes, Bad Religion is awesome.

However they're more political than religious

Agreed. But hey, religion, politics-- psh. What's the difference? twisted

Not a whole lot right now. Just wait a few years, then it will be just like it was back in the Middle Ages: Religion & Politics are one

Can you say Catholic Church?
:O

Oh, I don't know. I think the Baptists are pushing pretty hard for that right now. Mmmm... go American neocons go!  

[Ruminating Skeptic]

Bad Religion; just went out and bought one of their albums. I was so scared that my dad would have heard of them and would bite my head off, but he didn't.

What I find hilarious is that Simple Plan does a cover of American Jesus.

I think I like their version of it better sweatdrop

here is one I think is rather Atheistic or something...

I constantly thank god for esteban
Panic! at the disco

Give us this day our daily dose of faux affliction
Forgive our sins
Forged at the pulpit with forked tongues selling faux sermons.
'Cause I am a new wave gospel sharp, and you'll be thy witness
So gentlemen, if you're gonna preach, for God sakes preach with conviction!

Strike up the band!
Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you move.
Strike up the band!
Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you move.

Just stay where I can see you.
Douse the lights!
We sure are in for a show tonight

In this little number we're graced by two displays of character,
We've got: the gunslinger extraordinaire walking contradictions
And I for one can see no blood from the hearts and the wrists you allegedly slit
And I for one wont stand for this if this scene were a parish you'd all be condemned.

Strike up the band!
Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you move.
Strike up the band!
Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you, don't you move.

Just stay where I can see you
Douse the lights!
We sure are in for a show tonight
Just stay where I can see you
Douse the lights!
We sure are in for a show tonight

Stay where I can see you
Douse the lights!

Strike up the band!
Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you move.
Strike up the band!
Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you move.
Don't you move
Don't you move
Strike up the band!  

[Six Billion of Spades]

Funny I should find a topic like this... I was reading through the lyric booklet from Found in the Flood by The Bled earlier and I found this. This song is so vehemently anti-faith and contemptuous of religious oppression that I would feel sort of bad keeping it to myself.

I DON'T KEEP WITH LIARS ANYMORE
The Bled

I see right through you when you sing it back to me
I read that fine print and I saw you staggering
Regurgitate the s**t you find
In the dirty dreams of a rapist's mind
Congratulate the corpse you drag
Put the money in a body bag
Right in front of us

The stop and start machine
You've been singing with the liar's tongue
With every crippled word you said to me
With every fractured breath and broken glare
You were pawning off your babies' debt
With a cold paycheck

Abandon what you built
Repair your hope with guilt
There's nothing left here to suffocate
With razor wire arms
You reach and miss the throat
There's nothing left to love about this city anymore
The politics and the hired whore

Now save your breath
Now into your mouth
Did this to yourself
You can't repair the punctured lung
Secrets seep through the stress cracks
Shut your mouth
I read the fine print
Now shut your mouth
You did this to yourself
Now shut your mouth and pay the rent

You say it
Like your life depends
On believing in your own lie
I see right through you when you sing it
Sing it back to me

Now say it like your life depends on
Believing in your own lie  

[Harvested Sorrow]

For the ultimate in in atheistic music: Fireaxe. Philosophy combined with years of research into religion and psychology, in the format of three albums..the culmination of which is the third album, a three disc epic.  

[CleverScreenname]

Arios V

CleverScreenname

Bad Religion anyone?

Yes, Bad Religion is awesome.

However they're more political than religious

True. But they've got some songs. And their logo.  

[Harvested Sorrow]

Seeing as I should probably post lyrics but it's a three disc album...:

www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=35484

There's a link to a site containing all the lyrics to the album. Mind you, it deals with historical themes too and moves in cycles.  

[Arios V]

CleverScreenname

Arios V

CleverScreenname

Bad Religion anyone?

Yes, Bad Religion is awesome.

However they're more political than religious

True. But they've got some songs. And their logo.

True. Too true